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The Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum (本川小学校平和資料館 Honkawa Shogakkou Heiwa Shiryokan) is a museum of the Peace in Honkawacho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was the closest school to ground zero of the Hiroshima bombing .
In 1886, the modern elementary school system started as compulsory education. Until 1947, only elementary schools were compulsory. Immediately before and during World War II, state education was used as a propaganda tool by the Japanese fascist government. Today, virtually all elementary education takes place in public schools.
The Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum (袋町小学校平和資料館, Fukuromachi Shogakkou Heiwa Shiryokan) is a peace museum in Fukuromachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan. The school was one of the closest schools to ground zero when the atomic bomb fell on August 6, 1945.
Canadian International School (Tokyo) Chiba Korean Primary and Junior High School; Christian Academy in Japan; Chuo Elementary School (Tokyo) Colegio Hispano Americano de Gunma; Columbia International School
Elementary schools in Japan (61 P) G. ... Japanese school stubs (1 C, 212 P) Pages in category "Schools in Japan" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of ...
Nishitōkyō city disposed of the swords and guns and personal of the Japan Self-Defense Forces disposed of the ammunition and explosives. [6] A total of around 300 bullets, shells and grenades were found. [7] [8] While many articles described the edged weapons as "swords", they appeared to be Type 30 bayonets in published images. [9]
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The school was destroyed in the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. 74 of its 108 students, who had been sheltering in the school on the instructions of their teachers rather than evacuating to higher ground, were killed as the tsunami ran up the nearby Kitakami River. Only four of the students present when the tsunami struck the school survived.